Easily configuring the Microsoft Enterprise SSO plug-in for Apple devices

This week is all about the Microsoft Enterprise SSO plug-in for Apple devices. Both, iOS/iPadOS and macOS devices. That plug-in provides single sign-on (SSO) for Azure AD accounts across all apps that support the enterprise SSO feature of Apple. The plug-in is provided on iOS/iPadOS devices as an extension of the Microsoft Authenticator app and the plug-in is provided on macOS devices as an extension of the Company Portal app. The extensions can be enabled by using Microsoft Intune. In this post I’ll start with having a look at the configuration options, followed with the configuration steps. I’ll end this post by having a look at the end-user experience. Important: Keep in mind that, at the moment of writing, this is still preview functionality. Configuration options …

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Getting familiar with Microsoft Tunnel Gateway

This week is a follow-up on my post of a few weeks ago about getting started with Microsoft Tunnel Gateway. In that post I’ve showed how to get started with Microsoft Tunnel Gateway and in this post I want to show how to get more familiar with Microsoft Tunnel Gateway. Getting to know the installation location, getting to know the configuration files, getting to know the log files and getting to know a few important commands for more information. All of that will eventually help with getting more familiar with Microsoft Tunnel Gateway. In this post I’ll look a few directories, files, logs and commands. Also in that order. Directories Let’s start with a few directories. Actually, one directory and a few sub-directories. After the installation …

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Easily exporting Intune reports using Microsoft Graph

This week a short blog post about Intune reports and more specifically about exporting Intune reports by using Microsoft Graph. Since recently, all reports that are available in the (new) Intune reporting infrastructure are available for export. That export can be achieved from a single top-level export API. Simply use Microsoft Graph API to make the required HTTP call(s). The result of the HTTP call(s) will be a downloadable ZIP-file that contains a CSV-file. That CSV-file contains an export of the latest real-time information and can be imported in EXCEL for some simple data analyses, or in Power BI for more advanced data analyses and visualizations. In this post I’ll show how to use Microsoft Graph to export Intune reports and I’ll show the results …

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Getting started with Microsoft Tunnel Gateway

This week is all about the just, during Microsoft Ignite 2020, released Microsoft Tunnel Gateway (often referred to as Microsoft Tunnel or Tunnel). Microsoft Tunnel Gateway is a new solution that can provide iOS and Android devices with access to on-premises resources. In other words, Microsoft Tunnel Gateway is a VPN solution. The best part of Microsoft Tunnel Gateway is that it fully integrates with a Microsoft 365 solution and that it’s included in the existing Microsoft Intune license. That integration is also one of the strongest points of Microsoft Tunnel Gateway, as it also provides single sign-on capabilities and even conditional access. All of that with a relatively simple deployment. Also, to work with Microsoft Tunnel Gateway, Microsoft released the Microsoft Tunnel app for …

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